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Breaded

[bred] Origin

bread

[bred]
noun
1.
a kind of food made of flour or meal that has been mixed with milk or water, made into a dough or batter, with or without yeast or other leavening agent, and baked.
2.
food or sustenance; livelihood: to earn one's bread.
3.
Slang. money.
4.
Ecclesiastical. the wafer or bread used in a Eucharistic service.
verb (used with object)
5.
Cookery. to cover with breadcrumbs or meal.

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
6.
break bread,
a.
to eat a meal, especially in companionable association with others.
b.
to distribute or participate in Communion.
7.
cast one's bread upon the waters, to act generously or charitably with no thought of personal gain.
8.
know which side one's bread is buttered on, to be aware of those things that are to one's own advantage.
9.
take the bread out of someone's mouth, to deprive someone of livelihood.

Origin:
before 950; 1950–55 for def. 3; Middle English breed, Old English brēad fragment, morsel, bread; cognate with German Brot

bread·less, adjective
bread·less·ness, noun
un·bread·ed, adjective

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bread
"to dress with bread crumbs," 1727, from bread (n.). Related: Breaded; breading.
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bread definition


  1. n.
    money. : I need to get some bread to live on.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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